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Henrik Rohmann
Henrik Rohmann (4 August 1910, Bátaapáti – 13 October 1978, Budapest) was a Hungarian harpist and harp teacher. Biography He was born in Bátaapáti, in Tolna County, which was mainly inhabited by Germans. This may have had an effect on his choice of musical instruments as the harp was very popular with the German people in his community. Many wanderer harpists lived in the counties south of Lake Balaton. Between 1926-34 Rohmann studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest as a student of Otto Mosshammer. In 1938, he was a scholar of the Hungarian Opera House. After the war, in 1945 he became a professional musician with the Opera House and remained the harpist of this institution until his retirement in 1971. From 1948 he was a harp teacher at the Béla Bartók Music Institute in Budapest. He had many disciples who became famous later; for example, Erzsébet Gaál, Andrea Kocsis, Anna Lelkes, Éva Maros, Andrea Vigh and Aristid von Würtzler. Rohmann was also involved in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bátaapáti
Bátaapáti is a village in Tolna County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a .... References Populated places in Tolna County {{Tolna-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Hartford
The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut. Its main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. The university attracts students from 48 states and 43 countries. The university and its degree programs are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (EAC/ABET), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and the New England Commission of Higher Education. History The University of Hartford was chartered through the joining of the Hartford Art School, Hillyer College, and The Hartt School in 1957. Prior to the charter, the University of Hartford did not exist as an independent entity. The Hartford Art School, which commenced operation in 1877, was founded by a group of women in Hartford, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain's wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, as the Hartford Society for Decorative Art. Its original location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Harpists
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László Lajtha
László Lajtha (; 30 June 1892 – 16 February 1963) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor. Career Born to Ida Wiesel, a Transsylvanian-Hungarian and Pál Lajtha, an owner of a leather factory. The father Pál had ambitions to become a conductor, played the violin well and also composed. Lajtha studied with Viktor Herzfeld in the Academy of Music in Budapest and then in Leipzig, Geneva and finally Paris where he was a pupil of Vincent d'Indy. Before the First World War, in collaboration with Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, he undertook the study and transcription of Hungarian folk song, heading up a project to produce a series of folk music recordings. Throughout the war he served at the front as an artillery officer, an experience recalled in his sombre Second Symphony (1938) – a work that remained unperformed until 1988. In 1919 he married Róza Hollós, and began teaching at the Budapest National ConservatorLhh(Among his pupils was the conductor J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernő Dohnányi
Ernő or Erno is a Finnish and Hungarian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: *Ernő Balogh (1897-1989), Hungarian pianist, composer, editor, and educator *Ernő Bánk (1883-1962), Hungarian painter and teacher * Ernő Béres (born 1928), Hungarian long-distance runner and Olympic competitor *Ernő Csíki (1875- 194?), Hungarian entomologist *Ernő Dohnányi (1877–1960), Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist *Ernő Foerk (1868–1934), Hungarian architect *Ernő Garami (1876-1935), Hungarian politician *Ernő Gereben (1907–1988), Hungarian–born Swiss chess master *Ernő Gerő (1898–1980), Hungarian Communist Party politician *Ernő Goldfinger (1902–1987), Hungarian-born British architect and furniture designer * Ernő Gubányi (born 1950), Hungarian handball player and Olympic competitor *Ernő Hetényi (1912–1999), Hungarian tibetologist, scholar and Buddhist *Ernő Jendrassik (1858-1921), Hungarian physician and medical researcher *Ernő Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Harp Congress
The World Harp Congress is a private nonprofit organization founded in 1981 as an outgrowth of the International Harp Weeks held in The Netherlands for twenty years under the leadership of Phia Berghout and Maria Korchinska. The organization holds a triennial harp festival (also called the World Harp Congress) and promotes the performance of new music for the harp. The World Harp Congress also publishes a biannual journal entitled the ''World Harp Congress Review''. Events * The eleventh World Harp Congress took place in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2011. * The twelfth World Harp Congress took place in Sydney, Australia, in July 2014. * The thirteenth World Harp Congress took place in Hong Kong in July 2017. * The 14th World Harp Congress took place in Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the elevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Jamet
Pierre Jamet (21 April 1893 in Orléans – 17 June 1991 in Gargilesse-Dampierre) was a French harpist and pedagogue. A pupil of Alphonse Hasselmans at the Conservatoire de Paris, he became professor of harp there from 1948 to 1963, succeeding Marcel Tournier. He is the father of harpist Marie-Claire Jamet. Selected discography * ''Les Introuvables de Manuel de Falla'', 4CD, EMI, 1996. With Victoria de Los Angeles, Aldo Ciccolini, Consuelo Rubio and Ana-Maria Iriarte. * Jean-Philippe Rameau, Rossignols amoureux, extract of ''Hippolyte et Aricie'', with soprano Leïla Ben Sedira, 78 rpm, 1940. *'' Hommage à Albert Roussel'', 33 rpm, Decca, 1958. With Christiane Verzieux, José Maria Sierra and Christian Lardé. * ''Concerto en si bémol majeur pour harpe et orchestre'' by Haendel/Impromptu op. 86 de Gabriel Fauré/Impromptu op. 21 by Albert Roussel Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aristid Von Würtzler
Aristid von Würtzler (born as Würtzler Arisztid) (September 20, 1925, Budapest – November 30, 1997, Debrecen) Hungarian-American harpist, composer, leader of the New York Harp Ensemble. Biography Aristid von Würtzler was born into a middle-class family. His father was a violinist, a music critic and composer, who had devoted much attention to his sons’ musical education. His older brother, Béla Würtzler also became a musician. Aristid received his education at the Lutheran High School in Aszód and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Initially Aristid studied piano and cello, and then switched to harp at the age of 12–13 years. His first teacher was Henrik Rohmann. At the Academy he studied harp with Miklós Rékai and composition with Zoltán Kodály. Würtzler was expelled from the Academy once because he had not attended lectures on Marxism. But he was taken back by the intervention of Director Ede Zathureczky. Of his teachers he remembered Zoltán Kod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Bartók Music Institute
The Palace of Music (''Zenepalota'') is a building in Bartók square, Miskolc, Hungary. It is in the Béla Bartók Secondary School and the Béla Bartók Music Institute (a faculty of the University of Miskolc.) Designed by Gyula Waelder in Neo-baroque style, it was constructed between 1926 and 1927. USA loans -- just like that of the Hotel Palace in Lillafüred and the Market Hall on Búza tér -- financed the project. The Palace plays an important role in the cultural life of the city. It has a large concert hall where concerts are regularly held. The music institute -- originally named after the violinist Jenő Hubay -- moved into the building in 1927, on the 25th anniversary of its founding. See also * List of concert halls A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats. This list does not include other venues such as sports stadia, dramatic theatres or convention centres that may ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Opera House
The Hungarian State Opera House ( hu, Magyar Állami Operaház) is a neo-Renaissance opera house located in central Budapest, on Andrássy út. Originally known as the Hungarian Royal Opera House, it was designed by Miklós Ybl, a major figure of 19th-century Hungarian architecture. Construction began in 1875, funded by the city of Budapest and by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, and the new house opened to the public on the 27 September 1884. Before the closure of the "Népszínház" in Budapest, it was the third largest opera building in the city; today it is the second largest opera house in Budapest and in Hungary. Touring groups had performed operas in the city from the early 19th century, but as Legány notes, "a new epoch began after 1835 when part of the Kasa National Opera and Theatrical Troupe arrived in Buda". Legány, p. 630 They took over the Castle Theatre and, in 1835, were joined by another part of the troupe, after which performances of operas were given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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